Acraea ventura

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | image = Oberthur1893EtudEnt 17Plate1.jpg | image_caption = Figure 12 | image2 = | taxon = Acraea ventura | authority = Hewitson, 1877 <ref>Hewitson, W. C. 1877 Descriptions of four new species of ''Acraea'' from Lake Nyassa ''Ent. mon. Mag''. 14 : 51-52 </ref><ref name=funet>[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/heliconiinae/acraea/ "''Acraea'' Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''</ref> | synonyms = *''Acraea'' (''Actinote'') ''ventura'' *''Acraea serena'' ab. ''melas'' Oberthür, 1893 *''Acraea ochrascens'' Sharpe, 1902 *''Acraea terpsichore'' var. ''bukoba'' Weymer, 1903 }}

'''''Acraea ventura''''' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya.<ref name=ATBUT>{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_acraeini.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini |access-date=2012-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810134550/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_acraeini.doc |archive-date=2012-08-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Description== {{Entomology glossary hatnote}} ''ventura'' Hew. (= ''bukoba'' Weym.) (55 a) is very similar above to a typical ''Acraea serena'' or ''serena'' form ''rougeti'' and has usually a free subapical band on the forewing, with the spots in 4 and 5 much prolonged distally; beneath the forewing has at the distal margin sharply prominent black veins and saffron-yellow streaks on the interneural folds; it is characterized by the under surface of the hindwing; this has thick, sharply defined, bright red streaks in the cell and in cellules 1 c and 7 between the basal and the discal dots and occasionally similar streaks in other cellules also; the yellow marginal spots are very large and proximally produced into red streaks, which are much longer in cellules 1 c to 3 than in cellules 4 and 5; the proximal ends of the red streaks are connected by a dark line which bounds the light median band distally; thus the median band is not of almost uniform breadth, but in cellules 4 and 5 strongly convex towards the base. In the female the ground-colour of the upper surface is grey-yellow and the red streaks in the marginal band of the hindwing beneath are often absent. Southern Congo; Nyassaland; German and British East Africa; Uganda. - ''ochrascens'' E. Sharpe nearly agrees with ''ventura'' in markings, but has the ground-colour of both wings light yellowish white, and the subapical band of the forewing united with the ground-colour. Victoria Nyanza: Buka Bay. <ref>Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.{{PD-notice}}</ref> ==Biology== The habitat consists of marshy areas.

The larvae feed on ''Cassia'' species.

==Subspecies== *''Acraea ventura ventura'' (Malawi, southern Tanzania, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Angola) *''Acraea ventura ochrascens'' Sharpe, 1902 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

==Taxonomy== ''Acraea ventura'' is a member of the ''Acraea bonasia'' species group; see ''Acraea''.See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 <ref>Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre ''Acraea'' [http://www.acraea.com/image/liste/systematique.pdf pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112081928/http://acraea.com/image/liste/systematique.pdf |date=2014-11-12 }}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons}} {{Wikispecies}} *[http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=313793 Images representing ''Acraea ventura''] at Bold. *[https://archive.org/stream/diegrossschmett13seit#page/n121/mode/2up ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 56] ''a''

Category:Butterflies described in 1877 ventura Category:Butterflies of Africa Category:Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson